Carrie Fisher Quotes
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The trouble with getting introspective when you're pregnant is that you never know who you might run into.
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You're not famous until you're a Pez dispenser.
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Mothers are great. They outlast everything. But when they're bad, they're the worst thing that can happen.
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The message about sex and relationships that she had gotten as a child... was confused, contradictory. Sex was for men, and marriage, like lifeboats, was for women and children.
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Believe me, I didn't think there was some princely family I belonged to.
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I found out when I did the Oprah Winfrey show that there was a cookie jar of me. So she gave it to me. I had no idea prior to that that it even existed.
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I probably have more male friends that talk about us in a way that doesn't thrill me. I sometimes get a bit surprised when females talk like that around men.
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I've never been that uncomfortable talking about it. Things come out [in the media] about me. When it's out, it's someone else's version of what's the matter with me. I want it to be my version of what it is. My recourse is to do my version.
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I envy people who have the capacity to sit with another human being and find them endlessly interesting, I would rather watch TV. Of course this becomes eventually known to the other person.
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Having waited my entire life to get an award for something, anything...I now get awards all the time for being mentally ill. It’s better than being bad at being insane, right? How tragic would it be to be runner-up for Bipolar Woman of the Year?
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I am mentally ill. I can say that. I am not ashamed of that. I survived that, I'm still surviving it, but bring it on. Better me than you.
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I would rather not watch myself in movies. I enjoy the experience, but I won't really see the film until they're on cable deep on into my life so I can pretend it's someone else at another time.
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My mother is an immensely powerful woman.
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I think of my body as a side effect of my mind. Like a thought I had once that manifested itself-- Oops! Oh no! Manifested. Look at this. Now we have to buy clothes and everything.
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As a matter of fact [my mother] is very happily married. To a very nice southern gentleman named Roanoke - her first non-Jewish husband, as she likes to say.
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Two of the saddest words in the English language are, 'What party?' And LA is the 'What party?' capital of the world.
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It creates community when you talk about private things and you can find other people that have the same things.
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My fear is that I will be crushed in an elevator and my mother will get hold of my journals from my adolescence.
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The world of manic depression is a world of bad judgment calls.
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I think I do overshare, and I sometimes marvel that I do it. But it's sort of - in a way, it's my way of trying to understand myself.
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Here's how men think. Sex, work - and those are reversible, depending on age - sex, work, food, sports and lastly, begrudgingly, relationships. And here's how women think. Relationships, relationships, relationships, work, sex, shopping, weight, food.
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The older you get, the easier it is to spot the phonies. And I just think, how unpleasant for them.
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[When Harry Met Sally] was fine, but it was a job. And I did it right after The 'Burbs.
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I like performing. I like partnering with an audience.